LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and HoIyhead, Angelsey.—22nd March.
Searched without success for a small boat which was adrift and eventually made land in Co. Down after thirty-five hours at sea.—Rewards, Porthdinllaen,...
St Simeon (1)
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
TOUCH AND GO
When a cargo ship lost power and started drifting towards danger, two lifeboat crews headed out on a rescue that would test their endurance to the limit ‘It’s an unusual coincidence,' says Padstow Mechanic Mike England, ‘that for the...
Category: Articles
(Left) D Class Inflatable:
(left) D class inflatable: length overall 15ft 6in; beam 6ft 4in; draught 17in; displacement 0.25 tons; maximum speed, 20 knots; range at full speed, 60 nautical miles. The D class inflatable, introduced in 1963, has a crew of two; she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pilot Me II, Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Three local fish- ing boats were at sea on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, in deteriorating weather, and at 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a heavy sea with a northerly gale blowing....
An Aeroplane (124)
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £31 2s. 6d..
A Vessel (3)
DECEMBER 18TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
A vessel, believed to have been torpedoed, had been reported in distress, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
S.S. Lowick, of Newcastle
FEBRUARY 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.50 in the morning the coxswain reported a vessel ashore on a slag bank south-east of the South Gare Breakwater. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a strong sea and heavy rain....